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First post, by theelf

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I dont know if people realize, the forum is totally broken in most web browsers, it dont work in my PC or laptop or phone. I tested in my wife phone same, and in my wife laptop same too

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I know is a User-Agent stuff, but i cant post anymore, not from my PC laptop or phone, any solution? thanks

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Reply 2 of 26, by BitWrangler

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Chrome on 10 is working. Noticed it failing to load on Android 6 the other day, but that's barely surprising.

Edit: Android 12/Chrome fine, oh... it's working again on 6/Chrome... dunno if that was a glitch then. Was loading on PaleMoon 27 /XP yesterday, but rendering a little broke, objects out of place.

Edit2: I suggest it suddenly dropped out of your more local DNS server cache, at ISP or upstream host. Try alternate DNS, Google = 8.8.8.8 Cloudflare = 1.1.1.1 or see pic....

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Reply 3 of 26, by theelf

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Hi, is not about DNS, because i use different DNS, in my working PC, phone and remote work computer

vogons is not working in any of my browsers, the only way of made vogons work is to change user agent string of browser

This work

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36... Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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is a pain!!! need to do rules just for this website... i cant acces, since 2 days ago, neither from my Windows 3.1 PC using webone, and needed to fake strings too

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Reply 4 of 26, by badmojo

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Working fine for me on Brave (mobile) and Chrome (Win10).

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Reply 5 of 26, by theelf

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test some alternative browser guys, not everyone like to use mainstream ones or latest OS

Reply 6 of 26, by megatog615

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I have always felt that this website should at least render correctly in IE6 if you can actually get here at all.

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Reply 7 of 26, by Repo Man11

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I recently had an issue and I only resolved it by changing the server I use with Nord VPN. Before trying a different server I was in contact with Nord trying to resolve it, but then it began working again with the server I had issues with so I dropped it; about a week later it began again. So I've been using the server that it works with.

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Reply 8 of 26, by wierd_w

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I can see it in android firefox fine.

Reply 9 of 26, by zaphod77

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I had it not working with ios chrome, and had to switch to ios Safari. still works with chrome on pc win 11 for me.

Reply 10 of 26, by badmojo

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theelf wrote on Yesterday, 23:02:

test some alternative browser guys, not everyone like to use mainstream ones or latest OS

Then I think you should change the title of the thread to "The forum doesn't work with edge case browsers on old operating systems".

The forum is not broken.

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Reply 11 of 26, by theelf

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badmojo wrote on Today, 00:37:
theelf wrote on Yesterday, 23:02:

test some alternative browser guys, not everyone like to use mainstream ones or latest OS

Then I think you should change the title of the thread to "The forum doesn't work with edge case browsers on old operating systems".

The forum is not broken.

Well, is broken to me, i need to downloiad different browser or do some user agent stuff just for vogons. Is only website of all i visit i need to do this, then broken to me

Must be something someone touch,2 days ago was working fine

Reply 12 of 26, by zaphod77

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this is not an edge case browser. this is mobile chrome on current iOS in USA.

and it's still broken for me there.

Reply 13 of 26, by theelf

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zaphod77 wrote on Today, 00:30:

I had it not working with ios chrome, and had to switch to ios Safari. still works with chrome on pc win 11 for me.

I can confirm forum is not working in latest safari in ventura x86 for me neither, if I change agent work fine

Reply 14 of 26, by NeoG_

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The forum does user agent filtering and it seems unlikely the operators are going to stop doing it

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Reply 15 of 26, by zaphod77

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And the AIs are getting smarter about their fake agent strings. It won’t be long until they just use the current browser strings and this method becomes useless.

Reply 16 of 26, by RandomStranger

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I used to have issues with Brave desktop and only that. But with the current version it works.

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Reply 17 of 26, by bakemono

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OMG this thread is like a parody of the last two threads about this. LMAO

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Reply 18 of 26, by RetroGamer4Ever

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I have never had any issues on any browser I've used, be it desktop or mobile.

Reply 19 of 26, by SlowA

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Chrome on iOS doesn't work.